「台灣翻譯學學會」及「詞典及語料庫研究中心」即將在十二月六日安排一場演講，這次邀請到的講者是知名詞典與語料庫專家，英國 Lexicography MasterClass Ltd. 的創辦人之一 Dr. Adam Kilgarriff。演講相關資料如下：

日期： 12月6日 (星期三)
時間： 11:00 — 12:30
地點： 師大翻譯研究所 505 室
主講人： Adam Kilgarriff
講題： Using Corpora in Translation
摘要：
A target language corpus (ie., collection of documents) , when large enough and of the right kind of text, holds answers to all of a translator’s questions of the form, “how should I say this in the target language”. With the advance of computing, more and more documents are available electronically and they can be rapidly processed and queried so it is no surprise that corpora have been playing a fast-growing role in linguistics, translation and the language industries. In this talk the lecturer will describe the background and what it means for translators, and present two tools:

  1. The Sketch Engine, a state-of-the-art corpus query tool for fast, efficient language research, incorporating “word sketches”.
  2. WebBootCaT, a tool for gathering ‘instant corpora’ from the web, for rapidly finding the terminology of a specialist domain .

主講人簡介：
The Research Interests of Adam Kilgarriff:

The lexicon; its structure; lexical resources, including published dictionaries; how lexicographers write dictionaries, how they determine what meanings a word has, and how this relates to theoretical discussions of ambiguity and computational work on word sense disambiguation. Evaluating word sense disambiguation programs.

Language corpora; word frequency distributions; how these vary across language varieties, and how they relate to syntactic and lexical hypotheses; corpus interfaces; automatic and semi-automatic lexical acquisition from corpora; using the web as a corpus.

Lexical semantics; formalisms for lexical representation.

Adam Kilgarriff 與幾位專家所經營的 Lexicography MasterClass Ltd. 長期提供多家國際知名詞典出版公司，如 Longman, Collins, Macmillan等諮詢服務及專業語料庫軟體。關於該公司的詳細資料，請參考：
http://www.lexmasterclass.com/

本次演講，台灣翻譯學學會會員得免費參加，非會員或尚未繳交年費的會員酌收新台幣一百元。

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